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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Dear Spectres, <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>we invite you all to join us and share your comments and questions trough the live chat!<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020'>Hyperemployment - Post-work, Online Labour and Automation</span></i></strong><span style='color:#202020'><br>STREAM #1 /<b> <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Monday, 23 November 2020 at 5 PM (CET)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:normal'>Laborious Relations</span></strong><span style='color:#202020'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Silvio Lorusso & Sebastian Schmieg</span></strong><b><br></b>Moderated by Davor Mišković<br><br><b>Join us here > <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=3c97e51be0&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>aksioma.org/streaming</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020;font-weight:normal'>Today, no matter if we are unemployed, self-employed or working at a regular full-time job, as “technology users” we are always working.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#202020'>In November 2019, Aksioma started a one-year program of events entitled <em><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=08553a0946&e=b2b01b8bf8"><span style='color:#007C89'>Hyperemployment - Post-work, Online Labor and Automation</span></a></span></b></em><b> curated by Domenico Quaranta and Janez Janša</b>. Now we are ready to wrap up this experience with <b><a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=799a1cd406&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal'>a publication</span></strong></a></b> featuring words by <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Domenico Quaranta, Luciana Parisi, Silvio Lorusso, !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Felix Stalder</span></strong>, and the works of all the artists who were part of the program. The book will be <b>co-published by NERO and Aksioma</b> in December 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#202020'>Leading up to the book release, Aksioma presents <b>two streaming events </b>with some of the artists whose works and/or texts are included in the book. The first event entitled<strong><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></i></strong><strong><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Laborious Relations</span></i></strong> is a conversation between two of them: <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Silvio Lorusso</span></strong><b> </b>and <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Sebastian Schmieg</span></strong>. </span><span style='color:#202020'>Lorusso will take the cue from the essay (featured in the reader) entitled <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Gig Economy Art and Its Dark Matter</span></em> that focuses on the figure of the art worker and critically reflects on the use of outsourcing and crowdworking services in artistic production. Schmieg will instead take as a starting point the idea of <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=9ef3dde98e&e=b2b01b8bf8"><span style='color:#007C89'>“laborious intelligence”</span></a>, expressed in his article published for Kulturtechniken 4.0. </span><span style='color:#202020'>The conversation will be moderated by the director of the Rijeka cultural association Drugo more<b>, </b><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Davor Mišković</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#202020'>STREAM #2:<b> </b>On Monday 7 December 2020, as always at 5 PM CET, and always on <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=295807a082&e=b2b01b8bf8" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Aksioma | Streaming channel</span></a>, we’ll meet the artist duo <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>!Mediengruppe Bitnik</span></strong> and the professor of digital culture and network theories <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Felix Stalder</span></strong> who will discuss topics related to the invisibility of institutional processes, the functioning of infrastructures and logistics, freedom and the economy of data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>FB event > <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1223219048048125">https://www.facebook.com/events/1223219048048125</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Streaming page > <a href="https://aksioma.org/streaming">https://aksioma.org/streaming</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Follow us on Telegram > <span lang=IT><a href="https://t.me/aksiomaorg"><span lang=EN-GB>https://t.me/aksiomaorg</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020'>Production:</span></strong><span style='color:#202020'> Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Supported by:</span></strong> the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Marcela Okretič<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Aksioma | Project Space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>e-mail: marcela@aksioma.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>www.aksioma.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>